If you know hat you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

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The Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, OCC (born January 23, 1930) is a Saint Lucian (West Indies) poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros.

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